Two-wheeled vehicle



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F. B. LAY.

TWO WHEELED VEHICLE.

18888 .291v Patented Aug. 21, 1888.

NITED FRANK. B. LAY, OF KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN.

TWO-=WHEELED VEHICLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 388,291, dated August 21, 1888.

Application filed July 5, 1887. Renewed March 22, 1888. Serial 1\'o.268,055.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK. B. LAY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kalama zoo, county of Kalamazoo, State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Two-\Vheeled Vehicle, of which the following is a specifica tion.

This invention relates to that class of twowheeled vehicles the body or seat bars of which is fulcrumed at the forward end and suspended over the axle by spiral springs; and it has for its object certain improvements, sub stantially as below described and claimed.

In the drawings forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a side elevation with one wheel removed; Fig. 2, an enlarged elevation of the spring in Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a section on line 1 l in Fig. 2.

Referring to the lettered parts of the drawings, C is the ordinary body or seat-bar fulcrumed at the forward end to the thill B or the cross-bar thereof. I employ two spiral springs, a, in the construction of the hangers, which suspend the seat-bars over the axle,and

, use one of said hangers on a side, the side of the vehicle shown in Fig. 1 being of course duplicated on the other side of the same. The springs a are placed between two end caps, u, side by side, but separated from each other. A hairpin rod, 0, having an eye in the loop end, is passed through the plates at, with one arm of said rod through one of the springs a and the other arm through the other spring. A like hair-pin rod, 1', but wider, is passed from the opposite direction through the plates or caps a and through the springs. The free ends of the hair-pin rods are attached or retained by nuts screwed against the caps, or

One of these hangthey may be headed over.

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ers is hung on each side by being jointedly at tached to the thill and to the seat-bars or body or to some projection therefrom, or in any other suitable manner. By this means a shorter hanger having the same spring capacity, or a single spring of greater length,is obtained and a better spring action secured.

WVhile I prefer to attach the hangers to the bow of the thills, so that the hangers in their normal positions hang obliquely, as in Fig. 1, yet so far as the hangers are concerned this is a matter of choice.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. In a two-wheeled vehicle, the combination of a fulcrumed body, thills, and the hangers, comprising the two parallel spiral springs, a cap at both ends extending across the ends of each spring, and two eyed hair-pin rods, one arm of each passing in opposite directions through one end of the caps and through one spring, and the other arm of each passing in like manner through the other end of the caps and through the other spring, the free ends of said arms being retained by nuts or heads, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination oi'atwowheeled Vehicle, thills, and fulcrumed body or seat bars with the double spiral spring-hangers on each side jointedly attached to the thills and body, substantially as set forth.

In testimony of the foregoing I have hereunto subscribed my name in presence of two witnesses.

FRANK. B. LAY.

Vitnesses:

WM. MCDONALD, GEO. MCDONALD. 

